Sunlight Could Reduce Death Rate From All Causes

Science: Sunlight Could Reduce Death Rate From All Causes







Heather Callaghan
Activist Post

Here's something I never thought we'd hear in this lifetime:
<blockquote class="tr_bq">We suspect that the benefits to heart health of sunlight will outweigh the risk of skin cancer.</blockquote>A
lot of us are secretly, boldly basking for reasons like vitamin D, mood
enhancement, happiness, skin issues, liver health, pain and more. Now there's never a reason to fear harm or feel guilty - you could save your heart - and prevent an untimely death!

The espoused fear for about 50 years has been skin cancer rates (which
continue to rise), but researchers are finally surmising that years of
hiding from the sun could lead to increased heart attacks - a much
sooner demise than the risk of skin cancer in later years. Sunlight does
so much more than vitamin D production.

A recent landmark study could turn the modern thought on sun exposure right on its head...

UK scientists from the University of Edinburgh
discovered that when sunlight touches our skin it releases a compound in
our blood called nitric oxide. This helps lower blood pressure and
protect the heart from disease, cardiac arrest, strokes, and attacks.

Senior Lecturer in Dermatology, Richard Weller, and his colleagues
believe there is such a greater effect overall from the sun in reducing
life shortening events like strokes and heart attacks, that sun bathing
should not only be "risked" but incorporated into a healthy lifestyle.
There was such proof and such emphasis that the world's largest
gathering of skin experts flocked to hear about it recently at the
International Investigative Dermatology event in Edinburgh.


The main emphasis is sunlight for heart health. They have connected some interesting dots:

• Heart disease and high blood pressure rise in winter time
  
• Heart issues correlate with location. Example: higher rates of problems in Northern Europe versus Southern Europe
  
• Anywhere between 60 to 100 people die from strokes and heart disease
  for every person who dies from skin cancer (at least in Europe)
  
• Vitamin D can lower heart disease rates but not so much with store bought supplements - it's sun-induced vitamin D
  
• However, this production of nitric oxide is completely separate from
  vitamin D production, so it's something about sun-induced nitric oxide
  that is badly needed for heart health - does not come from vitamin D
  supplements
  
• In past studies, sunlight has been found to zap infectious disease like chicken pox
  

A couple dozen volunteers basked in two separate 20 minute sunlamp
sessions; one with only heat and one session with heat plus both types
of UV rays. Blood pressure sank and heart rates rose for the UV session
only - and the lowered blood pressure lasted for almost an hour.

Weller, certain that overall benefits far outweigh cancer risks, also said:
<blockquote class="tr_bq">The work we have done provides a mechanism
that might account for this, and also explains why dietary vitamin D
supplements alone will not be able to compensate for lack of sunlight. </blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">If this confirms that sunlight reduces the death rate from all causes, we will need to reconsider our advice on sun exposure. [emphasis added]</blockquote>This study that was published in Journal of Investigative Dermatology
in April was done with sun lamps - so you can imagine reaping the
natural benefits of Good Ol' Mr. Golden Sun. Sunlamps did not produce
vitamin D. Get the real deal, and not that God-forsaken chemical spray
that makes people look like Oompa-Loompa Kardashians.

The sun is sexy again - just don't want to barbeque that lovely skin. Please avoid any sublock containing these chemicals - nanoparticles are on the rise, which means they can penetrate further into skin and blood. Have fun and make your own natural sunscreen and use after you get some pure sunshine.

source:-
http://www.activistpost.com/2013/05/science-sunlight-could-reduce-death.html